High Court of Uganda

The High Court of Uganda is the third court of record in order of hierarchy and has unlimited original jurisdiction, which means that it can try any case of any value or crime of any magnitude. Appeals from all Magistrates Courts go to the High Court. 

The High Court is headed by the Honorable Principal Judge who is responsible for the administration of the court and has supervisory powers over Magistrate's courts. 

Physical address
Plot 2, the Square Kampala
2 judgments

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Citation
Judgment date
February 1995
Revision refused where appeal lay and no record showed accused was of unsound mind when he pleaded guilty.
Criminal procedure – Revision v appeal – s.341(5) Criminal Procedure Code bars revision at instance of a party who could have appealed; Magistrate’s Court Act s.111 procedure for accused of unsound mind; plea of guilty and admitted facts suffice absent contemporaneous indication of incapacity.
28 February 1995
28 February 1995